The project, which is being funded by the International Visegrad Fund, aims to 1) learn from and identify V4 best practices; 2) share these lessons with current and prospective EU candidates in the Western Balkans. To ensure that the lessons reach the widest audience, the consortium plans to create an online platform which will remain available after the end of the project in December 2013.

The project’s starting point is the political component of the Copenhagen criteria: stability of the institutions safeguarding democracy, rule of law, human rights, respect for and protection of minorities. Research results about the Visegrad countries will be compiled in a booklet that will contain all the information to be uploaded on the platform.